These past couple of days have taught me one very valuable lesson; that is dreams are no more than lost causes unless they are acted upon.
Ive said one too many times of how this year will be different, or i wll try harder or pronounce some arsehole full of shit of a statement and return a few blogs later with a comparable excuse of why things haven't worked out.
Phuccie and martez made me realize that I've been going by it all wrong. They made me realize that my priorities are fairly out of proportional to one another and that by striving to accomplish so much, other goals have began to be forgotten, or given less effort. Not that it was that easy to make me recognize my problems, i admit, it was only after a ,n hour long talk and then some back at home did i believe some truth.
My personality and my second self has always been a planner, and an obsessive one at that. I can definitely see my accomplishments through my compulsive planning but very much so do the disappointment of the unachievable. The guys and i analyzed my life and concluded with work, uni and the boys. What a life it is to be summed up in three words i thought, its really hard to accept that my life only comprises of this much at the moment. They tried to convince me that to many people, Ive got enough goals to work towards let alone adding others such as investments, extra curricular activities and such. In the end it was more about money and how we could make some more.
I just found it hard to accept that there was little else i could do to improve my finances other than working pretty much full time with uni, the sixer and security on the side. I told the boys that routines are always hardest at the beginning no matter how easy or complicated they are. Starting uni for instance after a whole quarter of a year off seems like a fairly dreadful affair but a few weeks in, it feels easy. Then follows work, then more hours, then some and then your at my stage. I'm so used to the timetable i have now, i could skim through weeks and not realize how long its really been.
I was in a fair disagreement with the blokes about how i had lost the motivation to do more yet complained about not achieving my dreams. Fairly contradictory i have to agree but i guess it was more about losing motivation because life this year hasn't been the greatest, considering just how much hard work Ive put in it. I'm just agitated at how complicated life can get, if i were to concentrate on uni, who would pay the bills, if i concentrate of work, who is going to look after my mum in a few years when I'm stuck with a dead end job just to get myself through life...
I admit, I haven't always been great at looking at the bigger picture and it was only after a few unfortunate events that Ive realized that once you've dusted yourself off from crawling in the dirt on your hands and knees, there's someone else who starts to kneel. Once you've reached the lowest point in your life and you've dug so deep to get through it, there's someone whose gone deeper, who have been lower. Its fairly ironic how i can preach of how much hard work and sacrifice Ive put into gym to achieve so much and not apply it to other aspects of my life.
A good mate quoted; tough times never last, tough people do and it is this that holds so much truth. Tough times never last longer than they are supposed to, life actually is pretty fair, it just depends on how you look at it.
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My Goals
1. Find a job
2. Make my own money
3. Paint a picture
4. Write a song ½
5. Go sky-diving
6. Go snowboarding
7. Go water skiing
8. See snow
9. Finish primary school
10. Finish high school
11. Make it to Otago University
12. Travel
13. Go to Africa
14. Reach 100 goals
15. Reach 200 goals
16. Reach 300 goals
17. Go to university
18. write and manage a blog
19. Graduate from university
20. Write a book
21. To worry less
22. To not worry at all
23. Get a black belt 2nd Dan
24. Read the top 100 books of all time
25. Watch the top 100 movies of all time
26. Name a star
27. Sort 5 kilos of M & M's into colours and then give it to someone for a gift
28. Fold 1000 paper stars
29. Fold 1000 paper cranes
30. See a comet
31. See a meteor shower
32. Save a persons life
33. Cheat death
34. Be independent
35. Become a radiotherapist
36. Become a doctor
37. Watch a world cup rugby match (Aus vs NZ)
38. Have a beer with every single mate of mine
39. Inspire someone
40. Get to the 100 kg mark
41. Get to the 90 kg mark
42. Get toned
43. Ride a hot air balloon
44. Fly a plane
45. Own a house
46. Own a car
47. Know who I am
48. Stop wasting time
49. Have a BBQ with all my mates
50. Sing to someone I care about 2x
51. Tell someone how I feel about them
52. Bungee jump
53. Hang-glide
54. Own a coffee shop
55. Own a place for friends to just hang out
56. Tell her I like her
57. Watch the sunrise
58. Watch the sunset
59. Drink absinthe
60. Stargaze and know what I'm talking about
61. Have a picture taken with the Eiffel tower
62. Play the guitar
63. Stop dad from smoking
64. Knowing that all my friends are successful
65. Knowing that my family is successful
66. Seeing mum and dad retire happily
67. Pay off mum and dads debts
68. Pay off mum and dads house
69. Send the mortgage paid certificate to them by post
70. Seeing little sister graduate from high-school
71. Seeing little sister graduate from university
72. Getting university degrees
73. Buy dad a big boat
74. Being able to sing and play the guitar at the same time
75. Get back into Taekwondo
76. Live without television for a week
77. Live without television for 2 weeks
78. Going up to mount Cootha with all my mates and having dinner
79. Going up to mount Cootha and yelling I love you
80. Take at least one photo of everything that makes me me.
81. Touch a python
82. Make a website
83. Do something I will be remembered for
84. Play the piano
85. To live life
86. Being able to sleep through my alarm clock
87. Being able to wake up on time without the need of my
alarm clock
88. To be loved
89. To love someone so much that everyday would be like the first day I met them.
90. See a green fairy
91. Sleep earlier
92. Go to France
93. Watch Amelie
94. Walk the streets of Montmatre
95. Get so pissed that I can't remember anything from the night before
96. Shout mate's dinner at some fancy restaurant
97. Shout mate's dinner KFC
98. See parents proud of me
99. Assist a child in need
100. Watch Amelie with Justine
101. Talk more
102. Smile more
103. Be less miserable
104. Stop swearing
105. Build charity housing for the needing
106. Less going onto MSN
107. Less using the computer
108. Enter a billiard pool competition
109. Make own charity
110. Go to a concert
111. Make people happy
112. Play in the rain
113. Make a coffee for someone and them saying it's the best they have ever had
114. Cook a meal for someone
115. Be more forgiving
116. Plant trees
117. Learn to say I love you in 100 languages
118. Ask the words will you marry me
119. Loving someone who loves me back
120. Stay in contact with all high school mates
121. Scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef
122. Get FAT tattooed
123. Be more different
124. Send a postcard
125. Have an 8 hour phone conversation
126. Throw a snowball
127. Get married and stay married
128. See 20
129. See 30
130. See 40
131. See 50
132. See 60
133. Touch someone
134. Mosh
135. Survive schoolies
136. Showing someone I care
137. Eat a kilo of anything in one go
138. Chug down a gallon of milk with 3 friends
139. Talk to a stranger
140. Get lost in a hedge maze
141. Learn to cook
142. Send an e-mail to everyone I care about
143. Survive a whole day without talking
144. Do the 40 hour famine
145. Write a letter to everyone I care about
146. Being able to drive
147. Donate blood
148. Participate in a bone marrow transplant
149. Give a kidney to someone I care about
150. Walk through a cemetery at night ½
151. Shitting pants with a bunch of mates
152. Go camping
153. Go on a road trip
154. Get Abs
155. Go sights seeing in New Zealand
156. Make a million bucks
157. Give a million bucks
158. Invent something useful
159. Eat an award winning pie
160. Get a henna tattoo
161. Shave my head
162. Shave my head for leukemia
163. Have a group photo with everyone in it
164. Finish a bottle of vodka
165. Have more wins than loses in yahoo pool
166. Finish The Da Vinchi Code
167. See the museums of France
168. Write and publish a poem
169. Go to skirmish
170. Go Ice-skating
171. Send a postcard
172. Get a degree in business management
173. Go to guitar classes
174. Go to photography classes
175. Grow a plant
176. Learn sign language
177. Being able to google something I made or something related to me
178. Knit a scarf for someone
179. Being able to dunk
180. Get drunk
181. Get a photo framed
182. Win an award
183. Light fireworks
184. Watch fireworks with the people I care about
185. Being able to sing a song in Spanish/ Latin
186. Taking bean sprouts out of the machine in 3 scoops
187. Taking bean sprouts out of the machine in 2 scoops
188. Catching a 5 kilo fish
189. Learning how to fly fish
190. Getting Boat license
191. Finish hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
2. Make my own money
3. Paint a picture
4. Write a song ½
5. Go sky-diving
6. Go snowboarding
7. Go water skiing
8. See snow
9. Finish primary school
10. Finish high school
11. Make it to Otago University
12. Travel
13. Go to Africa
14. Reach 100 goals
15. Reach 200 goals
16. Reach 300 goals
17. Go to university
18. write and manage a blog
19. Graduate from university
20. Write a book
21. To worry less
22. To not worry at all
23. Get a black belt 2nd Dan
24. Read the top 100 books of all time
25. Watch the top 100 movies of all time
26. Name a star
27. Sort 5 kilos of M & M's into colours and then give it to someone for a gift
28. Fold 1000 paper stars
29. Fold 1000 paper cranes
30. See a comet
31. See a meteor shower
32. Save a persons life
33. Cheat death
34. Be independent
35. Become a radiotherapist
36. Become a doctor
37. Watch a world cup rugby match (Aus vs NZ)
38. Have a beer with every single mate of mine
39. Inspire someone
40. Get to the 100 kg mark
41. Get to the 90 kg mark
42. Get toned
43. Ride a hot air balloon
44. Fly a plane
45. Own a house
46. Own a car
47. Know who I am
48. Stop wasting time
49. Have a BBQ with all my mates
50. Sing to someone I care about 2x
51. Tell someone how I feel about them
52. Bungee jump
53. Hang-glide
54. Own a coffee shop
55. Own a place for friends to just hang out
56. Tell her I like her
57. Watch the sunrise
58. Watch the sunset
59. Drink absinthe
60. Stargaze and know what I'm talking about
61. Have a picture taken with the Eiffel tower
62. Play the guitar
63. Stop dad from smoking
64. Knowing that all my friends are successful
65. Knowing that my family is successful
66. Seeing mum and dad retire happily
67. Pay off mum and dads debts
68. Pay off mum and dads house
69. Send the mortgage paid certificate to them by post
70. Seeing little sister graduate from high-school
71. Seeing little sister graduate from university
72. Getting university degrees
73. Buy dad a big boat
74. Being able to sing and play the guitar at the same time
75. Get back into Taekwondo
76. Live without television for a week
77. Live without television for 2 weeks
78. Going up to mount Cootha with all my mates and having dinner
79. Going up to mount Cootha and yelling I love you
80. Take at least one photo of everything that makes me me.
81. Touch a python
82. Make a website
83. Do something I will be remembered for
84. Play the piano
85. To live life
86. Being able to sleep through my alarm clock
87. Being able to wake up on time without the need of my
alarm clock
88. To be loved
89. To love someone so much that everyday would be like the first day I met them.
90. See a green fairy
91. Sleep earlier
92. Go to France
93. Watch Amelie
94. Walk the streets of Montmatre
95. Get so pissed that I can't remember anything from the night before
96. Shout mate's dinner at some fancy restaurant
97. Shout mate's dinner KFC
98. See parents proud of me
99. Assist a child in need
100. Watch Amelie with Justine
101. Talk more
102. Smile more
103. Be less miserable
104. Stop swearing
105. Build charity housing for the needing
106. Less going onto MSN
107. Less using the computer
108. Enter a billiard pool competition
109. Make own charity
110. Go to a concert
111. Make people happy
112. Play in the rain
113. Make a coffee for someone and them saying it's the best they have ever had
114. Cook a meal for someone
115. Be more forgiving
116. Plant trees
117. Learn to say I love you in 100 languages
118. Ask the words will you marry me
119. Loving someone who loves me back
120. Stay in contact with all high school mates
121. Scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef
122. Get FAT tattooed
123. Be more different
124. Send a postcard
125. Have an 8 hour phone conversation
126. Throw a snowball
127. Get married and stay married
128. See 20
129. See 30
130. See 40
131. See 50
132. See 60
133. Touch someone
134. Mosh
135. Survive schoolies
136. Showing someone I care
137. Eat a kilo of anything in one go
138. Chug down a gallon of milk with 3 friends
139. Talk to a stranger
140. Get lost in a hedge maze
141. Learn to cook
142. Send an e-mail to everyone I care about
143. Survive a whole day without talking
144. Do the 40 hour famine
145. Write a letter to everyone I care about
146. Being able to drive
147. Donate blood
148. Participate in a bone marrow transplant
149. Give a kidney to someone I care about
150. Walk through a cemetery at night ½
151. Shitting pants with a bunch of mates
152. Go camping
153. Go on a road trip
154. Get Abs
155. Go sights seeing in New Zealand
156. Make a million bucks
157. Give a million bucks
158. Invent something useful
159. Eat an award winning pie
160. Get a henna tattoo
161. Shave my head
162. Shave my head for leukemia
163. Have a group photo with everyone in it
164. Finish a bottle of vodka
165. Have more wins than loses in yahoo pool
166. Finish The Da Vinchi Code
167. See the museums of France
168. Write and publish a poem
169. Go to skirmish
170. Go Ice-skating
171. Send a postcard
172. Get a degree in business management
173. Go to guitar classes
174. Go to photography classes
175. Grow a plant
176. Learn sign language
177. Being able to google something I made or something related to me
178. Knit a scarf for someone
179. Being able to dunk
180. Get drunk
181. Get a photo framed
182. Win an award
183. Light fireworks
184. Watch fireworks with the people I care about
185. Being able to sing a song in Spanish/ Latin
186. Taking bean sprouts out of the machine in 3 scoops
187. Taking bean sprouts out of the machine in 2 scoops
188. Catching a 5 kilo fish
189. Learning how to fly fish
190. Getting Boat license
191. Finish hitchhikers guide to the galaxy